WHAT BROWN IS GOING TO DO IN PORTUGAL

Many of you are wondering what I expect to accomplish in Portugal for the two week period I will be in the country. Some have scoffed on Twitter that I am on a fool's errand or some egotistical fantasy trip, that I think I am going to pop over to Praia da Luz and solve the McCann case in a snap. Hardly. I am not that unrealistic nor am I so blind to reality and my abilities that I think I am going to do any such thing. What I am trying to do is learn a bit more. Since my book, Profile of the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann did earn some dividends (although not much since it was pulled from Amazon under threat of Carter-Ruck and the McCanns) and I stated I would put fifty percent of the earnings toward searching for Madeleine, I am doing that with the money.

I am approaching this case as I do others I have profiled. I plan to survey the area and then reanalyze the crime based on what I learn. Then, I plan to search in locations I believe Maddie may be.

I can accomplish the first part of the plan within ten days. The second part is unlikely to be fully accomplished and may require me to return to Portugal if I think another search has merit. I also may run into the "unknown factor" while I am in Praia da Luz. I may come across new information that will add to what is publicly known of the case or something that could change my profile. Although my top theory is that the evidence points to the McCanns involvement, the next most likely theory is that a local pedophile grabbed Madeleine and walked off with her to his lair. I do not at all believe Madeleine's disappearance had anything to do with a sex ring or someone who wanted a child. I do not believe Madeleine was taken away alive in a car. I believe Madeleine is not alive , whether the McCanns are involved or not.

Could I change this view? Sure. If I get to Praia da Luz, start analyzing the layout of the area and, suddenly, say, "Well, hell, if I had known that...." I don't expect this will happen but you never know. Being at the crime location is extraordinarily valuable when analyzing any case and this can change everything. If I do a one-eighty, I will not shirk my duty to disclose this and I will revise my profile as necessary.

What I won't be doing in Praia da Luz is going around questioning people. I am not a private detective and I don't have the right to do so in Portugal anyway. I won't refuse to talk to people but I am not knocking on doors and demanding people answer my questions. I will be analyzing and reconstructing the crime by way of the locations I can publicly access or have permission. I will do some experiments as to how long it takes to walk from A to B, check to see how easily something could be accomplished or how easily one can be seen carrying a child in certain places, and where a person could stash a body or not.

I will be searching for Madeleine in locations I believe have some merit. I am not going to discuss on this blog exactly where and how. I will tell you that when I get back.

Do I expect to find Maddie or the big clue that will lead me to her? The odds are not great that I will leave Portugal having accomplished that. I hope to increase my knowledge of what exactly happened to Madeleine. And, if I am really, really lucky, maybe I will unearth something of great value.

I am looking forward to my two weeks in Portugal. I am very curious to see what I will learn. I will try to blog daily on what I am doing and finding out (that I can release) and I hope all goes well. If, when my two weeks is up, I feel the trip was productive and I could use more time in Portugal, I will make a second trip to Praia da Luz in the coming months and continue my work.

The night she did that show on blogradio, I actually had to stop listening to it, because her voice was as annoying as a rusty chain saw, Lily. I cannot see it going down any too well in Portugal, where people speak rather softly and pleasantly, as a rule.

Yes, I can quite picture the whole of the cabin having to listen to her, that is, if she manages to get her enormous, swollen head through the cabin door.

Interestingly, a good few of the forkers are suspicious of her, too.

Anonymous said...See what Pat Brown is saying about the articles, on her blog. According to her, the articles regarding the interview of the T7 by SY, could be published because she is going to Portugal. She put the hypothesis of being used to take the attention of the media out of her.

I have no opinion regarding the real objectives of that lady. I prefer to keep my mind open because sometimes I read what she says with a pinch of salt.

Something is a fact for me: any private investigation or criminal search in Portugal , is illegal and if her work was to help GA and PJ, her trip will be kept under secrecy, in a very quite and incognito way. Then, why all that publicity? To ring Mccann's bell saying " hello, Have you noticed I'm here?" Sorry to be so sceptical.

Feb 5, 2012 10:52:00 PM

Whoever that is, they aren't the only one - and Brown's remarks about Portuguese people being so poor, they sell their children for sex, won't have helped her image much in that country.

ProfilerPatB PAT BROWN 3 days until I leave for Portugal. I'll be blogging daily, so I will keep you all in the loop as to what I am finding out. #McCann #LOOKING4 Feb

So, what happened? All we've seen so far is her with Bennett in a bus shelter in Windsor, and her with Gonc outside a fish restaurant.

Maybe she can't find an internet café or she forgot to pack the adaptor/batteries for her laptop?

Today, still asking.

Have the mainstream media reported her lawsuit or search yet?

I thought we were to receive daily updates on her search? So far we've had a photo of her posing in a greasy spoon caff with Bennett, a tweet about how Joana Morais was a wonderful host and a photo of her posing outside a fish restaurant with Amaral. Oh and a tweet about how she was travelling to PdL this weekend.

Well she offered to meet up with fans at heathrow for McCann talk and got no takers. So she ended up with the goon in a greasy spoon/hostel place for a chip butty instead.

She has been in PT for nearly a week now and we've only heard about who she's had coffee and forking with. Remember she's on holiday. She will write up some imagined scenario on the flight home. That's what she was ever going to do anyway.

She's 'interviewed' forkers and a convicted liar during her 'eat your way around portugal trip' and then she'll go to PDL to confirm that all their bile is 'correct' and then she'll write it up in an e-leaflet.

all I have heard so far is reconstructing meals with various people.

Coffee with the goon, sardine sarnies with Amaral, lunch with the pitchforkers....

Nice work if you can get it :-)

i didn't realise it was a gastronomic tour of Portugal (via a caf with tone)